Great American Music Connected with a Fannie Hurst Short Story...

A movie titled "Humoresque" was produced in Hollywood and released in 1946. The movie is based upon a short story written  in 1919 by the eminent American author Fannie Hurst, and  deals with the budding career of a brilliant young violinist, and features two eminent movie stars of the day, Joan Crawford and John Garfield.
What drew me to this movie was not the movie,  but vital ingredients supporting the two stars:
A character named Sid, played by none other than Oscar Levant, one of America's great humorists  as well as a close friend of George Gershwin, who had passed away less than ten years before the making of this movie. Levant was devoted to the music of Gershwin, and performed the great composer's  piano music throughout the Western world, and left us with recordings of the music as well - do keep in mind that Levant was a world-class pianist  (Horowitz was a close friend), and his humor was - well, do you recall some of his quotes I gave you in one of  my blogs, such as " I knew Doris Day before she became a virgin''  or, "what this world needs is more geniuses with humility - there are so few of us left" -
In almost  every  movie Levant appeared,  he was allowed by the screen writers to inculcate his own brand of derisive humor into the script -  a rare event in movie-making.
Another unexpected treat in this rather typical Hollywood romance was the violin playing supplied to the John Garfield characterization of that young budding violinist by a rising young violinist who became one of America's  great concert artists. His name? Isaac Stern...
So; if you'd like to witness unexpected historical gifts to the world of music in a Fannie Hurst short story adapted for the screen, look for a movie called "Humoresque."